That last bit sounds... an awful lot like Ro. I see them more when things get rough and the people who have seen them, now that I think about it, are people who I basically bonded to because we've all had it rough and can relate. I mean, I see Ro and "talk" to Ro a lot just to make myself feel better, but they kind of phase out when things even out.

I mean, it always seems like they're there in some capacity, but not really... active? I don't even know if that makes any sense.

Answers to questions asked. I try to keep them down to yes or no questions and things with definitive answers because if I ask them vague things (like whether or not something will happen or how somebody else is feeling) they freeze up. I have to iron it out to ask if they think something will happen or if they believe somebody feels _____, otherwise they just go silent.

So, I just sit around and ask, "Do you like talking? Am I upsetting you? Can you show yourself? Are you a person? Were you a person?"

Those sorts of things.

Got some friends on it shortly after this was made and we also established they don't really like being made fun of, but that it hurts them more than it infuriates them. They answered questions for them until they started asking dumb shit like their opinion on ice cream and stuff, and then the pendulum stopped responding (even to me to some extent) until my friends apologized.

Yeah. The first friend in the post saw Ro maybe twice and actually did the first pendulum reading thing with me. Once at the end of the hallway, once standing over him at my desk. The second friend had a tendency to wake up and see things (which was probably sleep paralysis, honestly) but we both watched my nonfunctional ceiling fan try to shake itself free from the ceiling once. She actually woke me up to prove she wasn't crazy.

After I posted this while visiting another friend, he told me he saw scuttling around his feet that he mistook for his cat. Then he realized the cat was locked up with his roommate for the night (and actually went to get the cat to prove it to himself).

I may have just prompted him to think it, though, since I was like, "Fuck it, let's try the pendulum thing again" just the day before. We just sat around asking Ro questions for about an hour, so maybe he just got carried away...?

I don't know. I keep trying to explain this away as me being crazy because that seems likely, haha.

I don't think I hallucinated him chasing it if only because it did result in a pretty lengthy "investigation" on his end, which included videos that turned up nothing and an EVP he likely faked. Then again, mass hysteria is a thing. Or he probably got caught up in the idea of being some super special ghost hunter or whatever.

I've got an appointment to see somebody about my PTSD who is new and I could probably get a fresh input on it whenever I get there.

Well, I'm between jobs at the moment, but once I'm gainfully employed I could look into a camera. If nothing else, I can take short snippets on my phone.

And... huh. I'm glad I'm not the only person who isn't mortified by my shadow. Reading what I have, I just started wondering if I was crazy for not being afraid. The closest I could find to Ro was shadow people and it seems every source claimed them to be evil or threatening.